Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 33
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.Collection: Freedom
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.Collection: Freedom
It comes from within.Collection: Freedom
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.Collection: Freedom
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.Collection: Freedom
I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.Collection: Freedom
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.Collection: Freedom
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.Collection: Freedom
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passionsCollection: Freedom
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.Collection: Freedom
Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!Collection: Freedom
The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.Collection: Freedom
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.Collection: Freedom
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.Collection: Freedom
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.Collection: Freedom
The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.Collection: Freedom
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.Collection: Freedom
Freedom has no history.Collection: Freedom
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.Collection: Freedom
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.Collection: Freedom
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.Collection: Freedom
When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.Collection: Freedom
Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.Collection: Freedom
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.Collection: Freedom
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.Collection: Freedom
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.Collection: Freedom
Interdependency follows independence.Collection: Freedom
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.Collection: Freedom
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.Collection: Freedom
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.Collection: Freedom
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.Collection: Freedom
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.Collection: Freedom
They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.Collection: Freedom
Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.Collection: Freedom
The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.Collection: Freedom
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.Collection: Freedom
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?Collection: Freedom
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.Collection: Freedom
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.Collection: Freedom
A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.Collection: Freedom
I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."Collection: Freedom
The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.Collection: Freedom
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.Collection: Freedom
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.Collection: Freedom
No one who lives in error is free.Collection: Freedom